It's your heart, not the dictionary, that gives meaning to your words. A good person produces good deeds and words season after season. An evil person is a blight on the orchard. Let me tell you something: Every one of these careless words is going to come back to haunt you. There will be a time of Reckoning. Words are powerful; take them seriously.
Matthew 12:34c-36 The Message
While there are many things about modern technology that I find to be detrimental, there are features of the technology world that I find to be absolutely wonderful. When I’m writing, I can copy and paste, cut, align however I want, change fonts, reword, reword, and reword until I’m happy… and if I decide I don’t like any of it, I have several options at my fingertips to wipe it all out and start over. Alt Ctrl Del is probably my favorite feature…
If the computer doesn’t want to start the day off acting right - Alt Ctrl Del. In the afternoon, if the computer doesn’t want to operate like it should - Alt Ctrl Del. If it gets hung up on something - Alt Ctrl Del. If it starts making noises I don’t like - Alt Ctrl Del. If I want or need a do-over - Alt Ctrl Del. With the newer technology, I also get the option of starting in Safe Mode or picking up where I left off. Also good options.
Our text for today is my worst nightmare… Sometimes I wonder if I could - or should - just communicate in the written word. I shudder to think of every idle word I’ve ever spoken. KJV tells us it’s out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks… I tremble at the number of times – and how quickly! – I’ve uttered the word idiot in just one day. Oh, how I would like to Alt Ctrl Del the spoken word! If I wake up “on the wrong side of the bed” - Alt Ctrl Del. If I’m not operating the way I know I should - Alt Ctrl Del. If I get hung up on something - Alt Ctrl Del. If I start making noise about something I don’t like - Alt Ctrl Del. When I want and NEED a do-over - Alt Ctrl Del. I don’t want Safe Mode to be an option, I want it to be a way of life, so that people know Jesus is a safe place…
Prayer:
Father,
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Give me clean hands and a pure heart so that the words of my mouth AND the meditation of my heart are pleasing to you, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. Set a guard over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of my mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen
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